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CDU Targets Biebesheim Councillors Over AfD Tie-Up as Local Party Leader Quits

Expulsions under the party’s no‑cooperation rule could leave the CDU without seats if those councillors keep their mandates.

Ein Ortsschild steht am Eingang zu der Gemeinde im südhessischen Kreis Groß-Gerau. Weil sie der AfD zu einem Sitz im Gemeindevorstand von Biebesheim am Rhein verholfen haben sollen, droht CDU-Gemeindevertretern der Ausschluss aus ihrer Partei.
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Die AfD Hessen, hier beim Gründungskongress des Jugend-Landesverbandes „Generation Deutschland“ in Fulda
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Overview

  • The Biebesheim council, which met Thursday to set up its new term, approved a joint CDU–AfD list that put AfD member Bernd Kahnert on the municipal executive, the small cabinet that runs day‑to‑day local government.
  • Following Thursday’s vote, the CDU district board in Groß‑Gerau opened expulsion proceedings against involved CDU councillors under the 2018 ban on working with the AfD.
  • On Tuesday, Mayor Marcus Rahner resigned as head of the local CDU association and said the joint list crossed a line, backing the district’s push for sanctions.
  • Party officials asked those involved to submit written statements and said two people who signed the joint proposal were not CDU members, leaving who faces discipline still in flux.
  • CDU leaders warned the party could lose its seats in the council if expelled councillors keep their elected mandates as independents, a significant risk in a chamber where the AfD’s 20.1% March result tightened the balance of power.